UBUNTU-CVE-2026-116133

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-116133

Summary:

Details: HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic rescanning of a multipart body with a missing or malformed boundary. Before the first part, and between parts, the multipart parser searches the whole buffered body for the next boundary. On a miss it keeps everything and searches again from the start when the next chunk arrives. A body with no boundary, or with a delimiter followed by neither CRLF nor "--", is therefore rescanned on every chunk, taking time quadratic in its size. A remote attacker can exhaust worker CPU with a few such requests.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-116133, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116133, https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44711943/, https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/bf77eb959bbe1641b77f69eefe98d58ce4c4ec79.patch, https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24/changes